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Sky Italia Targets Pirate Streaming App VancedFlix Through GitHub

TorrentFreak

Not everyone is willing or able to pay for multiple subscriptions, however, which in turn has helped to create a flourishing market for pirate streaming tools. These pirate services often use slick designs and easy-to-use apps that appeal to a broad audience. This week, anti-piracy outfit Kopjra took action against VancedFlix.

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Adobe Thinks it Can Solve Netflix’s Password ‘Piracy’ Problem

TorrentFreak

They knew their products, ran tight businesses, and had the best possible grasp on the intricacies of their respective markets. Competing with ‘free’ was clearly impossible. When online file-sharing hit the mainstream, entertainment company bosses tore out their hair in frustration. But it needs to be executed with care.

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Why the Online News Act is a Bad Solution to a Real Problem, Part Six: CBC Eligibility Harms News Competition and Its Public Interest Mandate

Michael Geist

Indeed, critics will rightly note the market distortion it creates for private entities who stand to lose further advertising-related revenues to the CBC, while supporters should be concerned that the bill undermines the CBC’s claim to a public interest role and makes an ad-free version of the service even less likely.

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My Testimony to the Colombian Constitutional Court Regarding Online Account Terminations and Content Removals

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

In other words, the law simply wasn’t designed to redress the plaintiffs’ concerns. To have enough money to pay for the professionally-produced content, publishers will increasingly adopt subscription models to access the content (sometimes called “paywalls”), which means we will enjoy less free content online.

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Spicy IP Weekly Review (November 16- November 21)

SpicyIP

Pikashow is an app which claims to provide free content of known OTT platforms. Controller General of Patents Designs and Trade Marks launches IPO Grievance Portal. US Appeal’s court rejects Natco Pharma’s marketing partner Alvogen’s appeal in patent litigation related to cancer drug Imbruvica. for approvals.

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27th Annual BTLJ-BCLT Symposium: From the DMCA to the DSA: Keynote and copyright interactions

43(B)log

Three characteristics of DSA that are building blocks: (1) single market nature, (2) proportionality, (3) process effect. Single market effect: harmonization of national rules, like US federal preemption. The majority of moderation decisions are not about removal, and not about illegality.